[rescue] A question of mousing. =)

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 24 20:54:21 CDT 2001


On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:45:48PM -0600, Teresa Bean wrote:
> I am a new Solaris user.  I am running a SPARCstation 5 with Solaris
> 2.6.  It starts into CDE fine, but the mouse doesn't move.  The buttons
> seem to work fine, but moving the mouse is like moving a mechanical
> mouse with years of gook in it.  

Do you have the metal "grid" pad for the mouse?  Sun optical mice wont
work without the special pad they require - they're NOT like the recent
PC/Mac optical mice that work on anything.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX



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